Re: Grandfather with 'For Sale' sign in car window given £100 fine for running street business

"nightjar .me.uk>" <cpb@<insert my surname here> wrote in message
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"Doug" <jagmad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"A car owner who put a for-sale note on his Ford Escort soon found
another sign on the window - a £100 penalty ticket.
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It has long been an offence to sell cars from the road. The only change I
can see from 50 years ago, is that it has now become a fixed penalty
offence.

Well I never knew that. So every time you see a car with a For Sale sign in
the window, it's breaking the law if the car is on the "public highway"?
What a stupid law! Does advertising the car, with the sale taking place at
your own house (off the road) actually constitute "*selling* cars from the
road"? Does the law distinguish between advertising for a private sale and
carrying out a business where the road become an extension of your business
premises, with the test drive and the sale taking place on the roadside?
Knowing our perverse laws, it probably doesn't!

What is the law about vans that have company name and contact details on the
side or cars with an advert for a business in the window - is it technically
an offence to advertise your company this way on the public highway? Nothing
would surprise me.

We are rapidly becoming a nation where just about anything that you do runs
the risk of falling foul of one petty jumped-up law or another.


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